Utah’s college students (legally) carry guns on campus

CNN has PJD - pathological journalistic disorder. It cannot write a story without a hysterical, liberal slant. This one, reporting that Utah is the only state in the Union to allow college students to legally carry guns on state university campuses, starts off giving the false impression that these law-abiding students are flying under the radar. It’s not until the seventh paragraph that it finally comes out that these kids are well within the law. Later, we discover that the only University of note in Utah too liberal-sappy to get with the program is BYU:

Utah students hide guns, head to class

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (CNN) — The senior at the University of Utah gets dressed and then decides which gun is easiest to conceal under his clothes.

If he’s wearing a T-shirt, he’ll take a smaller, low-profile gun to class. If he’s wearing a coat, he may carry a different weapon, he said.

He started carrying a gun to class after the massacre at Virginia Tech, but the student says he’s not part of the problem of campus shootings and could instead be part of a solution.

Nick, who asked not to be fully identified so his fellow students wouldn’t know he carried a gun, says he has had a concealed weapons permit for more than three years. But it was Seung-Hui Cho’s murderous campus rampage that made him take a gun to class.

“Last year, after Virginia Tech, I thought ‘I’m not going to be a victim,’ ” Nick said.

“My first thought was ‘how tragic.’ But then I couldn’t help but think it could’ve been different if they’d allowed the students the right to protect themselves.”

Days after another campus shooting — in which five students and the gunman died at Northern Illinois University — students at colleges in Utah, the only state to allow weapons at all public universities, are attending classes. See which states have laws about hidden weapons on campus » . . .

How about some straight talk — for once — from CNN? It’s absolutely impossible for law enforcement– really made for crime-scence investigation, not prevention) — working on their own, to prevent or even meaningfully limit the damage from one of these campus shooting incidents. They are demonstrably incapable of getting to the scene in time. High time that the rest of the country takes Utah’s lead in freeing law-abiding citizens to defend themselves.